ov
90
POLK ^
R i: • ' •
COLU’i 3Ui ”
2nd Class Postage Paid At
Tryon, North Carolina, 20782
Established January 31, 1928
THE WORLD’S SMALLEST DAILY NEWSPAPER
Founded Jan 31,1928 by Seth M. Vining
(Consolidated with the Polk County News 1955)
Jeffrey A. Byrd, Editor and Publisher
The Bulletin Is published
Daily except Sat. and Sun.
106 N. Trade St., P. 0. Box 790
Tryon, N. C. 28782
The Tryon Daily Bulletin
* (USPS 643-360)
Phone 859-9151
Printed In the THERMAL BELT of Western North Carolina
16 Pages Today
Vol. 63 — No. 113
TRYON, N. C.-28782
THURSDAY, JULY 12,1990
■ 20c Per Copy
The weather Tuesday: high 95,
low 71, hum. 77%. By 7 a.m.
Wednesday, .43 inches of rain had
fallen. Sunday’s rain was two
one-hundredths of an inch, not
two tenths.
Several people from Saluda
have told us that Willard Scott
held up a Coon Dog Day t-shirt on
NBC’s Today Show last
Thursday. Officials at the Town
Hall said calls came in from as
far away as New York City to
order a t-shirt from the Saluda
celebration.
Residents of Hogback
Mountain called the Tryon Fire
Department Tuesday night to
report a fire they saw from their
vantage, but they could not
pinpoint its location.
It took the firemen 15 to 20
minutes of driving around to
finally find the fire on an isolated
stretch of Horseshoe Curve Road,
according to Fire Chief Jimmy
Lankford.
By then, a dilapidated cabin
had burned to the ground. It had
not been occupied in some time,
Lankford said neighbors told
him. However, as of Wednesday
he had not identified the owners.
Lankford said a visit to the
property Wednesday showed the
fire had been started by a
Continued On Back Page
Jury Awards
$117,500 More
No school personnel will need
to be laid off, now that a jury has
awarded the Polk County Schools
an additional $117,500, Supt. Dr.
James S. Causby said
Wednesday.
Polk County Manager Steven
D. Wyatt said a 2.25-cent tax
increase will be needed to raise
the additional funds, and the
additional property tax will be
billed in a supplemental tax bill
to be mailed within two or three
weeks — unless the board decides
to appeal the ruling.
A 2.25-cent increase per $100
will cost the owner of a $100,000
home $22.50 a year.
The jury’s decision has not put
the schools on easy street,
Causby said.
“We still will have to revise the
budget,” Causby said. He said
the school board will need to cut
programs and will be reducing
staff by leaving vacant positions
open.
But the worst case scenario has
been avoided, he said: No lay-offs
will be required, and as a result
the number of combination-grade
classes will not increase over
what it was last year.
After two days of testimony in
the trial to determine if the
county's local appropriations for
schools were “adequate,”
schools attorney Russell Burrell
summed up the reason the Board
of Education went to court.
“Local funding for education is
what makes the difference
Continued On Back Page
Grace Fowler Bley (Mrs.
William C.) was elected a
director of the American Heart
Association, Polk County Unit, by
the Board of Directors at its June
meeting.
Mrs. Bley has served as the
Tournament Chairman of the
Ladies Heart Fund Golf
Tournament since 1988 and will
again chair the Ladies Heart-
Healthy Golf Tournament at Red
Fox Country Club on Monday,
Oct. 22 this year.
The Bleys moved to Tryon from
Chagrin Falls, Ohio, in 1981.
Since that time Grace has
contributed countless services to
the Tryon community,
particularly in music and the
arts.
She has been a soprano with
The Carolines since its inception
in 1984, is a member of the
Congregational Church choir,
Continued On Back Page
New Arrival
Michael and Lori Champion of
Tryon are parents of a son, Derek
Michael born July 9. He weighed
7 lbs. 4 oz. and is 21% in. long.
Maternal grandparents are Mr.
and Mrs. Billy Rickman of Mill
Spring.
Paternal grandparents are Mr.
and Mrs. Hoyt Champion of
Tryon.
Maternal great-grandmother is
Mrs. Lillian Rickman of
Columbus.
Paternal great-grandparents
are Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Champion
of Tryon and Mr. and Mrs.
Leonard Greene of Mill Spring.
Paternal great-great-
grandfather is Henry Thompson
of Green Creek.
“Twice Pardoned II”
“Twice Pardoned II” will be
shown Sunday, July 15, at 9 p.m.
This week at After-Church-in-
the-Park in the Tryon High Open
Air Gym see an emotion packed
return visit to Georgia State
Penitentiary. This powerful film
takes a look at the individuals
who motivated lonely prisoner
Harold Morris to pursue freedom
in Christ. His example assures
others held captive by anger and
insecurity that they, too, can find
release in Christ.
Harold relates to Dr. James
Dodson his dramatic pardon and
his heroic struggle with throat
cancer. Teens reflect on the
powerful challenge by Dr.
Dodson to care for the unlovely,
as modeled by the imporbable
example of ex-con Harold Morris.